IV - Please Don't Rush To Judgement

[Robin Landseadel]

On Jul 17, 2009, at 9:37 AM, Carvill John wrote:

>> From: Paul Mackin
>
>> I  was puzzled by the final two clauses:
>>
>> 	"....out in whose light you began to wonder if anything
>> 	you'd call psychedelic could ever happen, or if-bummer!
>> 	—all this time it had really been going on up north."
>>
>> "Up north" in L.A. lingo means the Bay Area and therefore Haight  
>> Ashbury,

. . . Arcada, Mendo, Redway, lower Oregon, Novato, San Mateo, Orinda,  
Berkeley, Harbin Hot Springs . . .

>> but is the wonder whether things you could call psychedelic are  
>> ONLY going  on there, or are EVEN going on there?

They was always goin' on more "Up North" than in "The Big Valleys"  
including those of San Berdoo & Fernando. Of course, LA had its own  
kind of Avant-Weird scene going on, but in general the Freaks moved  
north as soon as they could, even if a few fell back.

> Yep, but then again 'up North' in Pynchon means something else eh?

Uh Yup.

> In the context of that sentence, I took the final 'bummer' clause to  
> mean that perhaps the 'real' psychedelic Sixties action had been  
> going up up North, i.e. ONLY up there. Could be wrong...

. . . and you can be right. After all, the Dude hisself moved up to  
Aptos, right outside of legendary Surf locale Capitola,  tucked right  
under that giant stash box known as Santa Cruz.